Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 27
“Whatever is within this tower,” said they, “is as yet harmless, and lies bound under a mighty spell: venture not then to open a door which may let forth a flood of evil upon the land.”
Who acts: towers, evil · What happens: be, say, lie, bind, not open, let · To what, where: mighty spell, venture, flood · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (towers, evil), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tower | cop |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 6 tower | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 tower | det |
| 6 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Whatever | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whatever | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whatever | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 harmless | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 harmless | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 harmless | cop |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 harmless | mark |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 harmless | advmod |
| 16 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lies | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lies | cc |
| 19 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 harmless | advcl |
| 20 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 lies | xcomp |
| 21 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 spell | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 spell | det |
| 23 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spell | amod |
| 24 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bound | obl |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 venture | punct |
| 26 | venture | venture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 open | obl |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 open | advmod |
| 28 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 open | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 open | mark |
| 30 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 open | obj |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 let | nsubj |
| 34 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 let | aux |
| 35 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 open | conj |
| 36 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 35 let | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 flood | det |
| 38 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 let | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 evil | case |
| 40 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 flood | nmod |
| 41 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 43 land | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 land | det |
| 43 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 let | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | within this tower | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | towers = tower | Whatever ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | yet | harmless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lie in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | bind in a quote | participle | a mighty spell | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | not open in a quote | to-infinitive | venture | then | a door obj | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||
| 7 | let in a quote | may | a flood of evil | upon the land; which nsubj; forth property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flood=Theme | ||||
| 8 | flood in a quote | evil | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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